Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 23 shown for “Pair of bowls with repoussé work” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 08:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Processional Cross
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1150–75

Hot Water Urn
Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979 · 1830–1846
Pair of bowls with repoussé work
Artist not stated in the record · 14th–15th century

Sugar Bowl
Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979 · 1830–1846
Pair of bowls with repoussé work
Artist not stated in the record · 14th–15th century
Bowl
Artist not stated in the record · ca 1905

Potpourri bowl with cover (one of a pair)
Artist not stated in the record · porcelain late 17th century, mounts ca. 1745–50

Bowl
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · late 19th century

Cup stand with eight treasures
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Food mold
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1656

Pair of Butter Lamps
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Creamer
Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979 · 1830–1832

Broth bowl with cover and stand (écuelle ronde et plateau rond)
Vincennes Manufactory · ca. 1752–53

Teapot
Samuel Kirk & Son, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1815 - 1979 · 1830–1846

Ewer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1180–1210
Gilt Demitasse Spoon, Part of Set of Ten
Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818 · 1880

Goa Stone and Gold Case
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th–early 18th century

Gold phiale (libation bowl)
Artist not stated in the record · 4th–3rd century BCE

Pair of Tea or Sugar Caddies
William Cripps, English, 1715 – 1766 · 1752

Glass garland bowl
Artist not stated in the record · late 1st century BCE

Pair of escutcheons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1810

Bowl with a Horseman Spearing a Serpent
Artist not stated in the record · late 1300s or early 1400s

Sugar Bowl with Lemon Finial
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1768
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 2712 matched · 24 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2917839 matched · 40 examined · 5 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 08:19 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.